Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-31

JnAa v ASiSudoIChs i NUu u KNOW VINO
stood next to me on the corner when
Haddock was shot. ] don't know who
ran up Water street after me, lust after
the shot. Idon't know whether Frank
Hill took o copy Of my confession in
Chicago or not. I think Wood took
both copies. 1 changed my hat the
night of the murder when I came over
to Doersem's rooms, / don't know if
AreDsdorf drew his revolver from his
pocket. When he shot he must have
been twenty-five or thirty feet from me.
DISSEMINATION by the state: l don't
know. whose money it was that was OBJ
tanned from Junk to pay the hack driver
with on the night Of the murder. at
Holdenreid's hall we staid five or ten
minutes. went down stairs into the
after the meeting. / might,
after leaving there, have stopped at the
Chicago and Shepherd saloons. After
the killing it was close onto three weeks
when / left Sioux City, I was waiting
for my theater to open IN August 16,
but Mayor Cleland revoked my license
and | hal no other business. When |
left / didn't know of q warrant for nv
arrest, except what Argo told me. Argo
was not my attorney then. I knew
Frank Hill. of the Sioux City Tribune.
When l went away l left word with him
how i could be communicated with.
was at Mobile, Ala, when I.started to
come back. At Chicago before 60
ing to Mobile / left information
at q theatrical bureau how I could
he reached. After getting the tele-
gram at 8 o'clock l left Mobile for OH
caRo about Z O'Clock of the same day,
| met Wood and Hill right away almost
after I got to Chicago. Hill and Wood
wrote the confession. Hill said that il
needn't go into minute details, but to
make q compact general story of the
crime. After the statement was written
out they said now we've got the state
ment, and to show that we want to be
fair with you, you can go with us or not.
I said I'll go with you, straight to Sioux
City. ! never received q letter from nor
talked with the governor till went to
Des MONIES. / was before the grand
jury in December, and went to see the
governor in January. Up to that time
l v had any promise, further than
what Wood said. ] couldn't say With
out carefully examining the printed slip
whether it is an exact copy of my con-
f~ession. / never bad but one interview
with Bismarck. never saw
him from the time OF The
shooting up to the time I saw him in
jail when the grand jury was in session
l have never seen him nor communicated
with him since. The night of the shoot
ing was o rainy. dark, q bad night. It
rained hard at night. / had on dark
~pantaloons, Prince Albert scat and vest,
black ia color, and q rubber coat. nv
~pantaloons were dark, with q speck Of
light running through them. I would
know those pants.
Here the pants were handed to witness
and We're by him identified and put In
evidence.
Rsorosa-examination by Argo: /
haves,'t seen Bismarck since the one time
when the grand jury was IN session. /
did not speak to Bismarck the day be-
fore yesterday nor yesterday.
JENNIE LEAvITT.
/ heard of the killing of Haddock on
told me. I heard MIR. Leavitt and John
Arensdorf talking within a few days
afterwards. Arensdorf said he had been
before the %coroncr's Jury, but that he
didn't know anything. Arensdorf said
that Henry Peters would be next before
the grand Jury. He said also Peters was
dumb Dutohman and couldn't be fixed
for evidence. and that he would have to
send Peters away. After Arensdorf went
away ] motioned to my husband to come
up stairs. He did come up stairs, and
WI spoke on the subject of the conversa-
ton between them, / was feeding my
birds. The cages were in the window.
After supper at Johnson's on the even
ing OF the murder when Mr.. Leavitt
came back he had changed his clothes.
He did so at my suggestion.
Cross-examination by Argc: My
name is Jenny Levy. I am Herman
Levy's wife. / was married to him in
New York before q Jewish minister
not before an officer. / don't remember
just when. / think it was towards the
fall OF '76. The place was on Bayard
street, at o private dwelling. / went
there simply to get married. / cane to
Sioux City IN January, 1886. Billy
Dodson told me at Johnson's house
about the killing of Mr.. Haddock. III
did not say "Good, the s-of q bought
to be killed" MY husbands theatre
was a variety show / never appeared
as an actress in that theatre.
Q-"Did you drink beer with men in |
that place r. AL drank baer with
you, Mr.. Argo.
At this knockout blow the audience
roared and a few clapped their bands.
Judge Lewis promptly and sternly rel
bnked the demonstration, and threaten
ed to have the court room cleared il such /
conduct was continued.
Witness, continuing: I vent from
here, sitter the murder, to Kansas City, |
and from there to Chicago. NV hus.
band ien't keeping o theater at Chicago
| don't know Mrs. Gilbert or Mrs. Jec-
eneIer or Mrs. Jacobs. I only knew our
professional folks, and not all OF them.
I didn't say. at Johnson's that these SO.
loon men in Sioux City had nc sand. and
that il I had them I would put petit
coats on them and for 2 .cents / would
do mp Haddock myself. l never heard
the name OF Haddock before the Killing.
| don't remember using the rest OF thel
language. Iadou't think I did uss it. II